Date: 1792
The Roman senators did "Not shew the mental portraiture itself, / By gradual art, thro' fancy's calmer light. / Pure passion dwells not on description's hues"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"Beyond the woody Tamar, fancy trac'd; / And, as she spread the glowing tint, it seem'd / No fairy picture: for young hope reliev'd / With golden rays each figure fancy drew"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1793
"[Y]et, half repentant now / Her headlong haste, she wishes she had staid / To die with those affrighted Fancy paints / The lawless soldiers' victims."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1794
Busy thought may paint "a thousand horrors"
preview | full record— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)
Date: 1794
"Now in strong lines, with bolder tints design'd, / You sketch ideas, and portray the mind."
preview | full record— Bilsborrow, Dewhurst (fl. 1794)
Date: 1796
"By Locke, true WIT is best defin'd, / Her pleasant pictures lure the mind; / Associations sudden rise, / And seize the fancy by surprise."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)